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Show EDITORIALS ' (By C, D. McNeeley) ' GOVERNMENT INSURANCE . i , It is a fact known to most men that the government never Carries any fire insurance on any of its hundreds of millions of property. Shortly after the railroads were taken over the Sec-. Sec-. ' retary of the Treasury notified all insurance companies which had issued policies on railroad property, that none of the policies would be renewed. Since then the government has taken over the telegraph and telephone lines annd it is expected .the same " course will be pursued with them. The result will be that the in-. in-. surance. companies will lose millions of dollars in premiums annually.'- Excluding the telephone and telegraph lines, it is estimated esti-mated that the insurance companies have already lost about $20,-000,000 $20,-000,000 in annual premiums on property-taken over by the gov-, gov-, ernment. It is claimed that insurance on all property taken' over by the government will lapse. This will apply to many mills, formerly, form-erly, owned by alien enemies now in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian. There are hundreds of these plantsAgain, when the government buys merchandise for the maintenance of the war all insurance is dropped and in this way the insurance of property costing hundreds of millions is dropped out of the market. That this will work financial hardship the American agency " system in which about 60,000 persons are engaged, is recognized. Many will have to seek new employment. It will not affect the solvency of the insurance companies. The law compels them to hold securities which insure their solvency, but some may be forced out of business. Much the same condition prevails in life insuranc. The government carries hundreds of millions of life insurance. The government carries hundreds of millions of with the army and navy. . : to to . to. ' ' HEINIE'S OPINION OF PRUSSIANS A traveler in Germany a few years ago noticed that his compliments com-pliments concerning the writing of Heinrich Heine were coldly " received in Prussia while the rest of the empire seemed proud of him. He now declares that the reason of the coldness of the Prussians toward Heine is because he is the only author that ever described them, and he quotes the following passage from Heine to prove it: ' , . "I could not trust this Prussia, this tall, pietistic hero in jraiters, this braggart with the capacious maw, carrying a cor-noral's cor-noral's staff which he first dips in holy water before bringing it down on your head. I had great misgivings about this philosophic. philo-sophic. Christian, military despotism, this medley of beer, deceit and sand. Repulsive, deeply repulsive to me ever this Prussia, this pedantic, hypocritical, sanctimonious Prussia this Tartiffe among the nations." " 1 No American writer, no matter how wrathy he became over Prussian barbarities, ever was able to give as truthful description descrip-tion of a Prussian militarist as Heine." It not only covers his ' personality, but his philosophy. Since the nations have come to fully appreciate this militarist, the universal conclusion is that the only way to get these traits out of him, is to whip it out, and the allies are going forward with that work in good fashion. . N THE APACHES MAKE PEACE ' One of the interesting effects of the war is the making of peace between the Apaches and the Indians of the Pueblos. There has been a hatred between those two races that hae endured for centuries. The Pueblos were peace loving and agricultural in their habits and the Apaches were the wandering Arabs of the western plains, cruel and merciless. Their attacks on the Pu-i Pu-i t eblos centuries ago caused them to build cliff houses in almost inaccessible heights to make a place of safety for their wives and children, which are the wonder of the modern archeologists. This peace is like the lying down together of the wolf and the lamb. It is said that a large number of Pueblos, Navajoes and Apaches have enlisted-in the United States army. Living in the same camp, drilling under the same officers, supplied with the same food, they, gradually become friendly and finally that friendship was caught up by the wives, children and relatives back in. the tribes and a peace and friendship league has been formed among them. It is said that among the Apache scouts that army officers use on the Mexican border, there are now ulo Navajoe and Pueblo Indians. J MAD AUTOCRATS AND MONARCHS It seems that there are mad autocrats in other countries besides Germany where they acknowledge allegience to the "Mad Monarch." In a recent debate in the Hungarian parliament, Dr. Wekerle, the premier, attempted to justify his measures by declaring de-claring that he had given orders by the imposition of a special - tax on Galician Jews because they were undesirable foreigners. It would seem to a sane man that Hungary was having enough trouble with, its Slavic population without creating oppo- sition by another virile race. AH the nations belonging to the entente have managed to secure the hearty co-operation of the Jews and the Jews are rather an important part of their forces, , especially in industry and finances. . ft to The queen has asked Jonkheer G. L. M. H. De Beerenbrouck to form a cabinet. That chap has name enough to be a $ whole cabinet himself. lw to Garfield leaves Sunday pleasure riding to your gasoline conscience con-science and it won't do to try to sear that conscience with a red ' hot iron. - . let i to " The government moonshine raiders confiscated 21,000 . .pounds of sugar. That was a pick-up worth while. to to to There is inevitably a good deal of moonshine in the report . of federal activities against illicit distillers. to to to . . - Some ball players seem to think that assaulting the umpire is a tradition to be maintained. sl This "luring on" talk is very ancient but the Germans can find use for any old excuse to to to "No unnecessary traveling," advises McAdoo. Another s'am at those who gad about. . to to to ' Some are working for the "work or fight" amendment and gome are fighting for it. to to As a team Generals Byng, Humbert and Mangin are making mak-ing a very good bowling score. to to to Our respectful salute to the new major and brigadier generals. to to M With the American running record down to 1:34 4-5, the re-cord re-cord will not be broken many times more. . |